What did the mac search reveal? Our tracking systems use GPS and GSM but not WiFi
Jaime Solorza On Jun 16, 2015 2:27 PM, "Ken Hohhof" <[email protected]> wrote: > Fast food franchise at tollway oasis had us set up an open guest hotspot > as a Virtual AP on their Mikrotik, and we see random WiFi connections and > DHCP leases for MAC addresses starting with 00:16:A4 and hostnames starting > with UA followed by a bunch of numbers. The WiFi signal is always low, > around -90. > > Doing some research on the web, I think this may be due to vehicle > tracking systems, I'm not sure if these are vehicles in the parking lot or > whizzing by on the tollroad. Also not sure if they are from the vehicle or > the intermodal container it is carrying. > > I'm not sure it is a big problem, we have the DHCP lease time set to 30 > minutes. > > Has anyone else run into this, and if so, did you take any action? I > guess we could block connections from those MAC addresses, or maybe set a > higher signal threshold to connect. Or maybe we should just let them check > their location or call the mothership or whatever they do. > > BTW, don't say this is a DOS attack trying to exhaust the DHCP leases, > they dribble in 1 or at most 2 at a time. If we had the DHCP leases set to > 30 days, it could be a problem unless we expanded the pool. > >
